MisterHouse -- It Knows Kung-Fu


MisterHouse is an open source home automation program. It's fun, it's free, and it's entirely geeky. Written in Perl, it fires events based on time, web, socket, voice, and serial data. It currently runs on Windows 95 or newer and on most Unix based platforms, including Linux and Mac OSX.

Perl subroutines and objects are used to give a powerful programming interface. Here is some example code:

   $fountain = new X10_Item 'B1';
   set $fountain ON if time_now '6:00 PM';

   $movement_sensor = new Serial_Item 'XA2', 'stair';
   play(file => 'stairs_creek*.wav') if state_now $movement_sensor eq 'stair';

   $v_bedroom_curtain = new Voice_Cmd '[open,close] the bedroom curtains';
   curtain('bedroom', $state) if $state = said $v_bedroom_curtain;

Here is a list of the standard code files , simple example code files , and some user code files

Here is some example speech output:

Code Repository and Development Resources:
https://github.com/hollie/misterhouse

Downloadable Release History:
https://github.com/hollie/misterhouse/releases

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